![]() After completing his A-levels he attended Cardiff University to complete a BSc in Neuroscience. ![]() This is the website for Doctor Dean Burnett, neuroscientist, lecturer, author, blogger, media pundit, science communicator, comedian and numerous other things, depending on who’s asking and what they need.Īlthough employed as a tutor and lecturer by the Cardiff University Centre for Medical Education in his day job, Dean is best known for his satirical science column ‘Brain Flapping‘ at the Guardian, and his internationally acclaimed debut book ‘The Idiot Brain‘.ĭean Burnett was born and raised in Pontycymer, a working-class former mining village in the South Wales valleys, which explains his strong Welsh accent. Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist and psychiatry lecturer at the Centre for Medical Education at Cardiff University and is the author of the Guardian’s most-read science blog, Brain Flapping. ![]()
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Within the pages of this bestseller she had read as an undergraduate, Lisa Genova found something more profound than a set of intriguing neurological case histories. ![]() ![]() In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life."-Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Still Alice Book Cover"In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. How would you like to share? Facebook Twitter LinkedIn ![]() ![]() ![]() She began a technical writing career by writing for banks and high-tech companies. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude, Cynthia accepted a graduate fellowship at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and studied at the University of Hawaii. She spent her junior year abroad at the Mandarin Training Center of National Taiwan Normal University. I still write for that reason and because I like playing with words."Ĭynthia attended Harvard University, where she studied East Asian Languages. 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